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bad · Wave To Earth

EXERCISE 14 OF 47
Groove F -- Part F
105 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S9
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCFJS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bad on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-81, ride through bars 82-98, silence through bars 99-110, hi-hat through bars 111-127, ride through bars 128-142 and hi-hat through bars 143-145, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 6-7 and 9, and 28 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----------------------|
bad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 49, 81, 89, 93 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 56-82 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-112 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is bad?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is bad hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in bad?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 49, 81, 89, 93 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED